When you experience stress, your body goes through a series of physiological responses that feed into your nervous system and circulatory system. It is well documented that stress has a substantial affect
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Vitamin B12 deficiency should be on your radar screen for several reasons. Prevention, early detection, and treatment of vitamin B12deficiency are important public health issues, because they are essential to prevent development of
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The current medical studies have shown that one of causes of muscular pain (myalgia) is vitamin D deficiency. In those with myalgia, blood vitamin D levels were generally lower (28.6 v 34.2 ng/mL). After the myalgic patients with vitamin D deficiency were treated with vitamin D at a dose of 50,000 IU each week for 12 weeks the symptoms of myalgia were resolved in more than 92 per cent of the individuals treated.This gives hope to individuals who are taking statin drugs for reducing cholesterol levels because statins treatment often causes myalgic symptoms.

Vitamin B1 (Thiamine or Thiamin) is a water-soluble vitamin, which means. It is involved in all main metabolic processes in the nervous system, muscles, blood cells and heart. It is essential for digestion and for the nervous system therefore it is often used in the treatment of nervous disorders. It has been also observed that a daily sufficient intake of the votamin helps to cope with stress.

Heavy drinkers, smokers, pregnant women should take up to 300mg daily. The most efficient supplements of this vitamin proved to be oral sprays. There are no reports of the vitamin B1’s toxicity. The good sources of the vitamin in food are whole grains, brown rice, seafood and legumes.

For decades official medicine ignored the scientific evidence suggesting that lack of three vitamins of B group – B6, B12 and, the most important, folic acid (B9) – can trigger heart and strokes. Although our arteries are clean, open and elastic at birth, the process of artery clogging ( atherosclerosis or coronary artery disease) already begins early in life. One of the factors accelerating narrowing of arteries is excess homocysteine, an amino acid, which can accumulate in the plasma and triggers arterial plague and blood clot formation. Without enough these B vitamins in the diet, homocysteine starts building up in the body and becomes drawn into the endothelial cells. It interacts with “bad LDL cholesterol” to clog arteries

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is vitamin-like substance which is vital for your heart health – the highest concentration of this essential nutrient is in your heart.

Dr Peter Langsjoen has been treating thousands of heart failure patients with supplemental CoQ10 over last 24 years. Before this, he noticed that patients with advanced congestive heart failure had the lowest plasma CoQ10 levels. He also observed that daily administration of 450 mg of Ubiquinol (the reduced or active form of CoQ10) to his patients led to better results than that of treating them with 450 mg of Ubiquinone (the inactive from). Eventually, with Ubiquinol supplements his patients got their plasma CoQ10 level elevated up to 8.5 mcg/mL while

Numbness in arms or legs, balance problems and lack of co-ordination – all these conditions can be a sign of multiple sclerosis (MS) which can strike adults aged between 20 and 40 years although symptoms can appear at any age. No two cases of MS present in the same way: some symptoms come and go and others stay. It is a very unpredictable disease.

If you have these conditions and a question concerning diet and supplements that may have direct effects on MS. There is no consent among experts regarding the cure to MS yet, but it turns out that people with MS are at higher risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Low levels of vitamin B12 can mimic and exacerbate many MS symptoms, including fatigue, depression and memory loss.

If you could travel back in time and observe our planet 35 million years ago when enormous rain-forests covered much of the earth’s land, you would see plants of enormous size. Their root systems reached deep into the earth where they could tap rich sources of inorganic minerals and convert them into biologically-friendly minerals via photosynthesis. When these giants died, the organic minerals within their structures were re-deposited and combined with fulvic acids created by soil microbes. Through this process, more complex and diverse fulvic acid mineral colloids were evolved. Over millions of years of this life and death cycle, very rich and rare Fulvic Mineral deposits were gradually formed. These deposits never did turn into oil or coal. Until recent, Fulvic acid minerals has been entirely overlooked or misunderstood. New studies have come up with some amazing facts.

We generally consider food as the fuel that gives us energy but it may be also worth looking at one advanced nutrition that fuels our everyday functions at both the cell and molecular levels. Each time your muscles contract, your body use ATP – energy molecules in your cells. If you decided to make push ups in a row, say a hundred, you will soon reach the point when you will not be able to make another single one – a condition called burn out. This means that at this point you have exhausted your ATPs which are generated in your cell with help of coenzyme CoQ10 – a kind of fuel for ATPs.

The most important muscle in your body is heart which is the largest consumer of the non-oxidised form of coenzyme CoQ10 called Ubuquinol. Heart also stores Ubiquinol as a bank account your money. Our body can naturally produce CoQ10 but around age of 40 production of this biochemical is drastically go down and our aging process accelerates. It addition, the people taking cholesterol lowering medication – statins drug- suffer the most because depletion of CoQ10 by these drugs. Many doctors recommend a Ubiquinol supplement when they prescribe a cholesterol in order to reduce harm by this medication to their patients CoQ10 reserves.

When you experience stress, your body goes through a series of physiological responses that feed into your nervous system and circulatory system. It is well documented that stress has a substantial affect on the heart. Some of short lasting stress can be good for the heart. For example, physical exercise can put the heart under a degree of stress that is, generally agreed, to be beneficial provided that heart is not suffering from any disease.

However, if this stress is prolonged or gets chronic due to daily stress at work then the heart is forced to work harder for longer. It is believed that the stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol which increases heart rate, directs blood flow to the muscular system and releases fats into the bloodstream for use as energy) make blood thicker and stickier in preparation for any potential wound or injury. but in chronic stress this protective mechanism causes blood clots to form within the bloodstream because the body reacts to all stress in the same way.

Vitamin D’s best-known role is to keep bones healthy by increasing the intestinal absorption of calcium. Without enough vitamin D, the body can only absorb 10% to 15% of dietary calcium. However, the less known fact is that Vitamin D has an important role in regulating cell growth. Laboratory experiments suggest that it helps prevent the unrestrained cell multiplication that characterises cancer by reducing cell division and restricting tumor blood supply (angiogenesis), increasing the death of cancer cells (apoptosis), and limiting the spread of cancer cells (metastasis).

Folic acid (vitamin B9), together with vitamin B12, is necessary to form red blood cells. The form of folic acid occurring naturally in food is called ‘folate’. Folate is found naturally in a wide variety of foods and is also present in foods fortified with folic acid. Deficiency of folic acid can cause a type of anaemia (reduced oxygen-carrying ability of red blood cells) called ‘macrocytic’ (large cell) anaemia. Both vitamins together also help nerves to function properly are also essential for the formation of DNA (genetic material) allowing each cell to replicate perfectly.